tosh.
Copper; items made of copper.
Meaning & usage
Copper; items made of copper.
Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
A bath or foot pan
Easy bowling
Used as a form of address.
Where this word comes from
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
To search for valuables in sewers
To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
Where this word comes from
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
Tight.
Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Where this word comes from
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
Toshly: neatly, tidily
Where this word comes from
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
Where this word comes from
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
A half-crown coin; its value
A crown coin; its value
Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
Where this word comes from
From 19th-century British slang tosheroon, from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”), from Sabir and (originally) Italian corona (“crown”). The term was either derived from or influenced by madza caroon, the British slang for the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”), possibly under influence from tosh (“copper items; valuables”) above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings & sixpence.
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